13 Places Google Doesn’t Want Us to See

You know how you can see just about anywhere on Google Map — including (YIKES!) your own house?

But there are at least 13 places that Google doesn’t want you to see.

Some of the blurred/blanked-out sites are understandable, being places that are particularly vulnerable to a terrorist strike, such as an airbase or an oil finery or a power plant.

The reasons for the concealment of other sites, however, are cloaked in mystery. Examples include the Inuit Nation in Canada; the HAARP site in Alaska; the Mazda Raceway in Salinas, California; and an enigmatic spot near the Washington-Oregon border.

1. Baker Lake, NU, the Inuit nation in northern Canada

A man indentified as “Dr. Boylan” believes that the blacked out area seen below and those found in several other locations are blocking the locations of extraterrestrial beacons.

2. Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany

This NATO air force hub is a retreat for the Operation Iraqi Freedom forces, and as such could definitely be considered a terrorist target. That could explain why the facility is partially blanked out on Google Maps.

3. Pacific Northwest, USA

Here’s one that gives us chills. What exactly are we not seeing here? The site is close to the Washington-Oregon border and is rumored to have something to do with FEMA, HAARP or, really, anything at all. Prison Planet readers inspected the site in person and could find no identifying details other than an ominous fence and unmarked entrance.

4. Szazhalombatta Oil Refinery, Hungary

One of the strangest acts of alleged “censorship” is this Hungarian oil facility, which is simply rendered green. That’s right — the grounds are deleted, the buildings are missing, and what you have left is flat grass.

5. Huis Ten Bosch Palace, Netherlands

You wouldn’t think the Dutch Royal Family would be a prime target for madmen, but the Huis Ten Bosch Palace remains heavily pixilated on Google Maps no matter the angle. (The surrounding area and trees therein, on the other hand, come in crystal clear at close range.)

6. Unknown area, Russia

Another one that is so mysterious, no one has a clue what it is. One commenter on the website Siberian Light speculates it’s either “a radar station or missile interceptor,” while another notes that the image of the surrounding area appears to have been copy-pasted from another part of the country.

7. Mobil Oil Corporation, Buffalo, NY, USA

Some have criticized Mobil of Buffalo, NY for blurring their facilities, saying the oil corporation doesn’t have much of a case for being a terrorist target (terrorists hate snow, you know.) On the other hand, we can’t be sure what their reasoning is.

8. North Korea

You’ve no doubt heard about this country, one of the members of the supposed “Axis of Evil,” but few have ever visited. You won’t see it on Google Maps, either, as the entire country exists in images but without highway markers, street names, or any other identifying details.

9. Reims Airbase, France

Why is the Reims Airbase in France blocked out? Perhaps it emits a particularly foul body odor. (Just kidding, we love the French.)

10. Indian Point Power Plant, New York, USA

Everyone from Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo to former Republican Congresswoman Sue Kelly has called for the Indian Point Power Plant to be shut down. On top of environmental concerns, the upstate New York structure is, according to experts in the energy field, not strong enough to withstand an earthquake like the one that recently devastated Japan.

11. Volkel Airbase, Netherlands

It’s pretty ridiculous how blatantly blurred this one is, but then again, WikiLeaks did publish a diplomatic cable that confirmed the presence of nuclear warheads at this base.

12. HAARP Site, Gakona, Alaska, USA

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is one of the most controversial operations currently active in the United States. The Gakona, AK site and its ionospheric testing is believed by some conspiracy theorists to be the cause of everything from floods to earthquakes, although the evidence of this is very minimal.

13. Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Salinas, CA, USA

Here’s the strangest bit of censorship on Google Maps: the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. It’s heavily whited out, in fact, as if an angry hand did the trick. The weirdest part is the facility is just what it sounds like: a seemingly-harmless racetrack